Cooling Cucumber. Borago officinalis, Starflower, and Platycheirus albimanus, Grey-spotted Boxer, Tuin van de Diaconie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pottering about in the delightful, small herbal patch of the Deacon's Garden next to the Hermitage, one of Amsterdam's fine museums, this Starflower reminded me of my youth. Hot bruises would be treated with thin slices of cool cucumber, and Borago smells and tastes like that wonderful vegetable. We would be warned to handle the growing fruits of cucumber in our vegetable garden carefully because their own bruising would turn them bitter-tasting. Whether our Grey-spotted Boxer Hoverfly needed bruise solace I don't know. The male - this is the female - has slightly thickened forelegs, hence its common name, elaborated from the Latin. And obviously it's here after Sweetness and not Pollen.
Cooling Cucumber. Borago officinalis, Starflower, and Platycheirus albimanus, Grey-spotted Boxer, Tuin van de Diaconie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Pottering about in the delightful, small herbal patch of the Deacon's Garden next to the Hermitage, one of Amsterdam's fine museums, this Starflower reminded me of my youth. Hot bruises would be treated with thin slices of cool cucumber, and Borago smells and tastes like that wonderful vegetable. We would be warned to handle the growing fruits of cucumber in our vegetable garden carefully because their own bruising would turn them bitter-tasting. Whether our Grey-spotted Boxer Hoverfly needed bruise solace I don't know. The male - this is the female - has slightly thickened forelegs, hence its common name, elaborated from the Latin. And obviously it's here after Sweetness and not Pollen.